Production is tight. Oddisee delivers the goods once again. Grab Oddisee’s debut album People Hear What They See released on June 12 and download his remix EP Odd Renditions for free on… Continue reading
Tonight we paid homage to MCA aka Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys who very sadly passed away on Friday. We also spun reggae, London rhymes, hip-hop from Tall Black Guy Productions, German… Continue reading
More leftfield soulful beat and bass greatness this week from Shabazz Palaces, Ben Westbeech, Wookie, El Michels Affair, Mark de Clive-Lowe, a Tribe Called Quest, Darkhouse Family, and Stevie Wonder! Here’s how… Continue reading
Tall Black Guy Productions flips Fela’s “Water No Get Enemy” into something way laidback. Get more TBGP beats here.
Everything eclectic tonight. Here’s how it made that melodious thunk. FIRST TRACK GOES IN HARD WITH DUSTY PSYCHE-SOUL-FUNK-ROCK’N’ROLL TO GET YOU DANCING FROM THE GET-GO 0:01 Fabulous Souls – “Take Me” 0:04… Continue reading
Leftfield hip-hop, experimental bass, stompin’ beats, and a 30 minute mix of rare cover versions of classic tracks all on tonight’s show! Here’s how we wove that tangled web. FIRST TRACK IS… Continue reading
This is your brain on spicy food. (Honestly, how is it possible that Misters Burial and Four Tet sound like they’re just messing about with FruityLoops and GarageBand here and yet still… Continue reading
Dig Deep is your one-stop shop for beats, bass, hip-hop, and electronic soul, broadcast each and every Friday night, 1am-3am on KBCS 91.3FM Bellevue-Seattle and kbcs.fm. Ever so much goodness tonight from… Continue reading
Grab your ears and stick them on this Aussie future soul shimmer and r’n’beats glimmer from Melbourne. Hiatus Kaiyote is their name, which still has me thinking of a… Continue reading
Throwback tracks and brand new beats all in the mix tonight! Here’s how the sound got wound around. LET’S GET THIS SHOW ON THE ROAD SHALL WE Christophe Beck – “Dolby’s… Continue reading
Hip-hop, house, drum ‘n’ bass, and sounds future and classic all in the mix tonight. Raw, whole, fresh, and organic. Good for your health. Here’s how we got them beats sliced and… Continue reading
Brand new beats in the form of hip-hop, house, and drum ‘n’ bass tonight! Here’s how it stopped, dropped, and rolled. Mos Def vs Flying Lotus – “Mathematics” (Duncan Gerow Remix) DAN DIGS… Continue reading
Remixes tonight from NZ’s Adi Dick, LA’s Jeremy Sole, UK’s Ghostpoet, and a welcome return for the Prodigy. Plus Michigan hip-hop from 14KT, new Damon Albarn-produced Bobby Womack (going strangely dubstep on the… Continue reading
Too many good new tunes tonight. New beats from the 2 Bears, Yuna, cody chesnuTT, Mo Kolours, Part-Time Heroes, and Sweatson Klank aka Take! Plus locally grown produce from THEESatisfaction, Shabazz Palaces, and… Continue reading
New music tonight from Geoff Barrow from Portishead’s new hip hop project Quakers (will someone please tell me how I can get a hold of the stupendously good sample that sounds like a… Continue reading
New music this week from Jakes, Teebs, Gummy Soul, Shlohmo, and WhoMadeWho. Plus classic tracks from Mark de Clive-Lowe (his first ever remix!), Photek, Armand Van Helden, and local Pacific Northwest sounds from… Continue reading
New music this week from Dam-Funk, Mux Mool, Homeboy Sandman, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, and Sophia Knapp! It really just might be too perfect. Plus we spin SertOne’s J Dilla tribute track, L-Vis 1990’s… Continue reading
Dig Deep is back from a two week hiatus! Brand new and bangin’ tracks from the Funk League, Mike Skinner, Giraffage, and DJ Format, plus we pay tribute to J Dilla, we… Continue reading
What? Two full hours of a Tribe Called Quest, Common, Rustie, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Nicolas Jaar, Cornelius, The Weeknd, and Baba Maraire? 1970s Indian psychedelic rock, 1990s drum ‘n’ bass, Ghanian hip-hop, all… Continue reading
Getting 2012 started right! New music from Cassia, Robert Koch, Time Wharp, and Robert Glasper, plus Charles Bradley-sampling hip-hop, murky late-night Austrian beatscapery, Polish jazz-step (seriously), and stadium rave! My goodness! Here’s how… Continue reading
What other radio show gives you deep future garage stylings from Brackles, Russian beatsmithery from Nocow, instrumental-in-every-sense-of-the-word hip-hoppery from Clams Casino, le French filter business from Onra, the one and only Mr. Scruff,… Continue reading
So here it is, merry Christmas, the Dig Deep radio show’s Best of 2011 mix! No countdowns, no top 5s, 10s, 20s, or 1000s, just two hours of the best songs from the… Continue reading
Raw. Forget looking back in time with your Top 10 lists, this dark and deadly slice of hype is looking so far forward in the future it’s beaming the apocalypse back to us.
Warm soul-stomp from Part-Time Heroes, Stones Throw hip-hop from Homeboy Sandman, Lee Fields, Wiley goes Christmas grime, brand new Spoek Mathambo South African beats, Japanese rap from GAGLE, Moscow beatbox-dubstep (seriously) from Galun,… Continue reading
Late addition to my top 10 albums of 2011. Swiss beats (literally) from Dimlite’s fourth full-length album Grimm Reality. Is kaleidoscopic. Grab it via Stones Throw/Now Again Records or listen to more here.
Mayer Hawthorne got Christmassy, re-spin for Bad Bad Not Good, Hudmo’s “Cbat” smashed it, Erykah got played twice, Nu Zilla soulfunk duo Funkommunity brought it, the White Stripes went reggae via Alice Russell,… Continue reading
La Funk Mob, Mos Def, Pharoahe Monch, Ikebe Shakedown, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Emily King, and Wayne Wonder all in the mix tonight! Here’s how it got stone cold. Wayne Shorter – “Oriental Folk… Continue reading
James Blake’s latest effort saunters out of the gate with a strong snare and a nagging trumpet, perhaps to distance himself from the embrace from the charts he’s currently experiencing and keep… Continue reading
Big thanks to all for tuning in! Soulful d’n’b remixes, hip hop and house featured heavily this week. Here’s how it worked out. Death Cab for Cutie – “Brothers on a Hotel Bed”… Continue reading
Listen again to last night’s Dig Deep radio session with an exclusive Winter 2011 Future Chill Mix here and download it here. Here’s how it was thankful. Roots Manuva – “Here We Go… Continue reading
Friday’s Dig Deep radio session hear-again here. Download here. Done et done. (Oh and by the way, the above pic is now the world’s most expensive photograph. It sold at Christie’s three days… Continue reading
Click here to listen again to Friday’s Dig Deep radio session and click here to download it as a podcast. Here’s how we did it right. Nadastrom vs Heartbreak – “Church” Steve Spacek… Continue reading
Click here to listen to tonight’s Dig Deep radio show again and click here to download it as a podcast. Never has so much fun been so straightforward! New music in the mix… Continue reading
Great, wonderful, and generally fantastic times earlier on tonight’s Dig Deep radio show! We cooked up a late-night mixtape of all that’s good in beats, bass, and electronic jams right now and before… Continue reading
What a magnificent show! Beat weirdness from Spokane, WA’s James Pants, superb future soul from Jai Paul, brand new Geeneus and Ms Dynamite carnival vibes business, and Netsky’s d’n’b remix of Plan B’s… Continue reading
Big show tonight! Brand new music from Efya, Dub Gabriel, Mosca, Primary 1, and Kendrick Lamar. Plus we got in the mix with a special time-themed song showcase and got housey at the… Continue reading
Another big show! Brand new tunes from Roots Manuva, A Trak, George Lenton, Lee Bannon, Sepalcure, and Seattle’s very own Ill Cosby for our city’s Decibel Festival weekend. A great time at the… Continue reading
Hello friends. Bit of a tweak to Dig Deep this week: we’ve decided to drop the “U.K.-only” music tag for Dig Deep and instead welcome music from all over the galaxy to the… Continue reading
We got a lil bit laidback tonight as we spun our Autumn Mix: a fine, red-leaved, chill-in-the-air, pathos-driven, seasonal selection of brand new tunes and classics from the vaults. Then we got all… Continue reading
Another show jam-packed of new tunes from across the Atlantic and classic U.K. dance tracks from back in the day, eight hours ahead, as Seattle finally moves into summer proper and we get… Continue reading
Getting your Labor Day Weekend started right! Listen again to this show–two hours of the best in new U.K. beats and British club culture sounds–here and download it here. Here’s how we saw… Continue reading
It was a great one tonight. Listen again to this show–two hours of the best in new U.K. beats and British club culture sounds–here and download it here. Here’s how we rolled in,… Continue reading
2 hours chock-a-blocko-block of mostly brand new and some brand renewed UK dance music! Click here to listen again and click here to download this show. Here’s how the game was won. Dusky… Continue reading
Many thanks to all who tuned in for another two hours of big U.K. beats and Brit electronica this week! Click here to listen again to this episode of Dig Deep and click… Continue reading
Another stellar show of wall-to-wall brand new and brand classic UK beats and basslines! Click here to listen again to the latest episode of the show and click here to download it. Here’s… Continue reading
The best in UK electronica featuring brand new and brand old tracks from across the Atlantic that you need to hear. Click here to listen again to the show. Here’s how it sounded.… Continue reading
Special Mercury Music Prize shortlist rundown this week on Seattle’s specialist U.K. electronica show Dig Deep! Here’s how it worked its magic. MERCURY MUSIC PRIZE SHORTLIST All odds to win taken from the… Continue reading
Here’s how it spun. Zero dB – ‘The Snare’ Rizzle Kicks – ‘Down With The Trumpets’ (Star Slinger Remix) Kid Gloves – ‘Music Power’ (Original Mix) Dem 2 – ‘Long Shak Dodge’ (Original… Continue reading
Jungle! We kicked off the show tonight with the massive ‘Close’ by Derby’s Drumsound & Bassline Smith and followed with Bristol’s Loadstar mix of Jess Mills. Our PRODUCER IN THE SPOTLIGHT was grime/house… Continue reading
